Anna Lardinois - Storied & Scandalous Wisconsin: A History of Mischief and Menace, Heroes and Heartbreak

Anna Lardinois owns Gothic Milwaukee, offering the citys most popular haunted, historical walking tours. Anna also created Walking Milwaukee, a collection of history-based, self-guided walking tours of Milwaukee and the suburbs sold locally at Whole Foods, west elm, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a variety of local shops. She hosts a thirty-minute weekly radio show on WXRW Milwaukee. Her first book, Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends, was published in 2018.

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